Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership (eBook, ePUB)

From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel
Redaktion: Krimmer, Elisabeth; Simpson, Patricia Anne

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays achieving a deeper understanding of the historical roots and theoretical assumptions that inform the realities and fantasies of German female leadership.



The Western tradition of excluding women from leadership and disparaging their ability to lead has persisted for centuries, not least in Germany. Even today, resistance to women holding power is embedded in literary, cultural, andhistorical values that presume a fundamental opposition between the adjective "female" and the substantive "leader." Women who do achieve positions of leadership are faced with a panoply of prejudicial misconceptions: either considered incapable of leadership (conceived of as alpha-male behavior), or pigeonholed as suited only to particular forms of leadership (nurturing, cooperative, egalitarian, communicative, etc.).
Focusing on the German-speakingcountries, this volume works to dismantle the prevailing disassociation of women and leadership across a range of disciplines. Contributions discuss literary works involving women's political authority and cultivation of community from Maria Antonia of Saxony to Elfriede Jelinek; women's social activism, as embodied by figures from Hedwig Dohm to Rosa Luxemburg; women in political film, environmentalism, neoliberalism, and the media from Leni Riefenstahlto Petra Kelly to Maren Ade; and political leaders Hillary Clinton and Angela Merkel.

Contributors: Dorothee Beck, Seth Berk, Friederike Brühöfener, Margaretmary Daley, Aude Defurne, Helga Druxes, Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge, Anke Gilleir, Rachel J. Halverson, Peter Hudis, Elisabeth Krimmer, Stephen Milder, Joyce Marie Mushaben, Lauren Nossett, Patricia Anne Simpson, Almut Spalding, Inge Stephan, Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker.

Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. Patricia Anne Simpson is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787446410
• Artikelnr.: 58583519

Autorenporträt

Edited by Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson Women's
Political Authority in Maria Antonia Walpurgis von Sachsen's Talestris:
Königin der Amazonen (Thalestris: Queen of the Amazons, 1763) - Seth Berk
Maxims of Leadership for a Silent Readership: Sophie von La Roche's Pomona
für Teutschlands Töchter and Mein Schreibetisch - Margaretmary Daley Marcus
Aurelius, Also for Girls: Discussions on the Best Form of Government in
Enlightenment Hamburg - Almut Spalding Dux Femina Facti: Gender,
Sovereignty, and (Women's) Literature; Marie Antonia of Saxony's Thalestris
and Charlotte von Stein's Dido - Anke Gilleir Dux Femina Facti: Gender,
Sovereignty, and (Women's) Literature in Marie Antonia of Saxony's
Thalestris and Charlotte von Stein's Dido - Aude Defurne Crossing the Front
Lines: Female Leadership, Politics, and War in Die Familie Seldorf - Sarah
Vandegrift Eldridge Power Struggles between Women in Schiller's and
Jelinek's Works - Inge Stephan Age and Purpose: Unmarried Women and Female
Agency in the Works of E. Marlitt and Hedwig Dohm - Lauren Nossett "Heroism
of the Mother": Women's Right's Pioneer Jeannette Schwerin, Motherlove, and
Women's Leadership in German-Speaking Central Europe, 1890-1914 - Lisa
Fetheringill Zwicker Strategic Optimism: Bertha von Suttner's Activism for
Peace - Elisabeth Krimmer Humanizing Socialism: The Feminist Dimension of
Rosa Luxemburg's Intellectual Leadership - Peter Hudis Follow-the-Leader:
Tracing Male Influence on Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph des Willens - Rachel
J. Halverson "Leaning In": The Career Woman as Instrument of Neoliberal
Critique - Helga Druxes Change, Persistence, and Contradiction: The
Representation of Female Political Leadership in Gendered Media - Dorothee
Beck Petra Kelly: A Green Leader out of Place? - Stephen Milder and
Friederike Brühöfener "Mama Merkel" and "Mutti-Multikulti": The Perils of
Governing While Female - Patricia Anne Simpson Women Leaders in Troubled
Times: The Leadership Styles of Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton - Joyce
Marie Mushaben Bibliography Notes on the Contributors Index